Barks, Coleman

LC control no.	n 82012270
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PS3552.A6717
Personal name heading	Barks, Coleman *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Located	Athens (Ga.)
Birth date	1937-04-23
Place of birth	Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Field of activity	Poetry Creative writing Translating and interpreting
Affiliation	University of Georgia University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of California, Berkeley
Profession or occupation	Poets College teachers Translators
Found in	His The juice, 1971, c1972. The illuminated Rumi, 1997: CIP t.p. (Coleman Barks) data sheet (b. Apr. 23, 1937) Barks, Coleman. Hummingbird sleep, 2013: ECIP t.p. (Coleman Barks) data view (Barks received his M.A. in English from the Univ. of Calif. - Berkeley in 1961, and his Ph.D. in English from the Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1968; author of Winter sky: poems 1968-2008 and A year with Rumi) Hard lines, 2016: page 266 (Coleman Barks was born in Chattanooga in 1937 ; now a retired professor emeritus at the University of Georgia in Athens) Coleman Barks web site, May 17, 2016: (Coleman Barks was born and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and educated at the University of North Carolina and the University of California at Berkeley. He taught poetry and creative writing at the University of Georgia for thirty years. He is the author of numerous Rumi translations and has been a student of Sufism since 1977 ; He lives in Athens, Georgia) <http://www.colemanbarks.com/>
Associated language	eng per